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16 Apr 2021

Birds' blood functions as heating system in winter

Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have discovered that bird blood produces more heat in winter, when it is colder, than in autumn.

23 Mar 2021

New study shows that Lake Mien was formed by a meteoric impact

Volcano or meteorite? Over the past 100 years, two different theories have been put forward to explain the formation of Lake Mien. However, researchers from Lund University can now...

15 Mar 2021

Bird parents that receive help live longer

Long life is common among bird parents that get help with childcare. This finding comes from researchers at the universities of Lund and Oxford who reviewed data from more than 9,0...

15 Mar 2021

Particle physics detective work behind the solution of a 50-year-old riddle

For 50 years, the world of research has been searching eagerly for the so-called Odderon particle – entirely fruitlessly. However, a Swedish-Hungarian research team has managed to ...

4 Mar 2021

Drill cores from Mexican crater provide new knowledge about dinosaurs’ extinction

Sixty-six million years ago, a gigantic celestial body crashed to Earth on the Yucatán peninsula, forming a crater 200 kilometres across. The impact plunged Earth into darkness and...

4 Mar 2021

New study shows that Earth was formed by millimetre-sized pebbles over a short period

A Swedish-Danish research team is now launching a new theory of the process that led to the formation of Earth. Through advanced analyses of meteorites, astronomers can determine t...

18 Feb 2021

Breakthrough in the fight against spruce bark beetles

For the first time, a research team led by Lund University in Sweden has mapped out exactly what happens when spruce bark beetles use their sense of smell to find trees and partner...

8 Feb 2021

Ostriches challenged by temperature fluctuations

The world's largest bird, the ostrich, has problems reproducing when the temperature deviates by 5 degrees or more from the ideal temperature of 20 °C. The research, from Lund Univ...

8 Feb 2021

Soldiers, snakes and marathon runners in the hidden world of fungi

Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have discovered the individual traits of fungi, and how their hyphae – that is, the fungal threads that grow in soil - behave very differen...

26 Jan 2021

Nuclear physicist’s voyage towards a mythical island

Theories were introduced as far back as the 1960s about the possible existence of superheavy elements. Their most long-lived nuclei could give rise to a so-called “island of stabil...